Schedule - PGConf.EU 2022
Vik Fearing
Vik Fearing is a Major Contributor to PostgreSQL and an official editor of the SQL standard, which he has helped write as a member of the ISO/IEC SQL committee (WG3) since 2022. He has been part of the PostgreSQL community since 2008 and lives in France.
His work reaches both into the database and into the specification itself: he authored the standard's error handling for type conversion — the DEFAULT … ON CONVERSION ERROR clause on CAST and the IS CASTABLE predicate — and brought the widely adopted QUALIFY clause into ISO SQL.
Within the community, he is the founder and co-organizer of pgDay Paris, an inaugural member of the PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee, a moderator of several PostgreSQL mailing lists, an IRC operator for #postgresql and #postgresql-fr, and part of the team behind the @PostgreSQL account. He speaks at conferences around the world.